Senate Republicans uniformly stated Tuesday that the responsible verdict within the Hunter Biden gun case reveals the justice system labored they usually brushed away questions that the conviction reveals that GOP claims of selective prosecution are politically motivated.
Right here’s what some senators advised CNN:
Sen. John Thune: “Hunter Biden’s not working for any political workplace. Donald Trump’s working for president. There are every kind of various dynamics in two completely completely different instances,” he stated. “The clear factor in the (Trump) New York case, I imply, there’s no argument. … That is politically motivated. The prosecutor ran, he obtained up there, obtained the job on the predicate of making an attempt to prosecute the previous president.”
Sen. Rick Scott: “First, on this case, that is present regulation that folks have been prosecuted earlier than and they’ve been related earlier than, they usually’ve been sentenced earlier than,” he stated. “Within the case of (Donald) Trump, they’ve made up one thing model new that no one’s been prosecuted earlier than. And it was full political persecution.”
“Nobody’s ever been persecuted the best way Trump was persecuted in New York. Nobody. Nobody on this nation,” he stated.
Sen. Josh Hawley: “Let’s keep in mind that DOJ initially wished to do a plea cut price (with Hunter Biden), had a plea cut price with him, as kind of a sweetheart deal and did not wish to prosecute this case. I imply, so I believe it exposes the truth that DOJ was prepared to brush this beneath the rug,” the Missouri lawmaker stated. “And because it seems, it was a slam dunk case, which, by the best way, is nothing to have fun. I imply, it’s prefer it’s not, it’s not a great factor that he’s responsible.”
With contributions from CNN’s Sam Fossum, Manu Raju and Kristin Wilson